Deplorables

I disagree with Hillary's statement that half of Trump's supporters are "deplorables", defined as people who are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, or some combination of those.  Based on my life experience, 100% of them exhibit these traits in whole, or in part. And you can also throw "dumb as a box of rocks" into the mix.

Harsh? You have to actually live in Trump country and deal with his supporters on a daily basis to know how true it is.   I've interacted with angry white guys all my life, working class and professional, and I don't feel sorry for them a bit. To hell with the lot of them.  Pundits may say their anger is the result of frustration over the loss of the jobs that allowed their fathers to live a middle-class lifestyle without a college degree. And there's truth in that. But instead of blaming the ones responsible for their plight - Republicans - they take the easy way out and blame immigrants and minorities. And Democrats. Instead of embracing their most potent weapon for combating the Republican economic agenda of transferring all remaining wealth to the already rich - collective bargaining - they hoard guns and ammunition and pretend they will have to take on Democrats to preserve a way of life that is being taken away from them. When in reality, Democrats are the ones trying to save it for them.

Trump supporters would rather lose everything they have now, and everything their children might ever have, including a chance to go to college, healthcare, even  a habitable planet, in order not to have to face a reality in which they have common cause with poor and middle-class immigrants, minorities, and LGBT individuals in the fight against Republicans.  The only thing that matters to them is the fantasy that no matter how bad things get for them, they are still superior to those people. Trump encourages them to live in this fantasy world, and like drug addicts, they will destroy themselves and the world around them in order to keep that feeling.

So, racist, ignorant, selfish, delusional, and dumb as a box of rocks.  Eventually, their fantasy world will disintegrate and the ship of delusion they have constructed will capsize, but I'm afraid when that happens the basket of deplorables will be so large that we will all be dragged down with it.

There are no morals more relative than conservative morals, and no hypocrisy quite like conservative hypocrisy.